anarchotoothbrushist

anarchotoothbrushist, 2 months ago

A complete tear-down simply confirms the end of the status-quo, with no implication of anything better rising from the ashes.

Most anarchists would advocate a strategy of ‘prefiguration’, often summarised as ‘building the new world in the shell of the old’. You don’t have to tear down the old system before you start building its replacement.

In anarchy, those with power reign supreme over those without. Most power and resources are already consolidated in a tiny minority.

Once a society has reached a condition of anarchy, there would, by definition not be a tiny minority with a concentration of power and resources. Anarchy means no rulers/authority.

anarchotoothbrushist, 3 months ago

Summary for those who haven’t watched:

• Vote, or don’t, but it won’t change the system
• The system will not offer significant concessions unless its existence is credibly threatened

Seems hard to argue with.

anarchotoothbrushist, 4 months ago

Why “thankfully”? Fuck Biden.

anarchotoothbrushist, 4 months ago

I’m pretty sure that the United States was founded on the principle of self determination

Self determination for who? For rich, land-owning, white males.

The US was founded on the same genocidal settler-colonialism as Israel.

anarchotoothbrushist, 4 months ago

A right thing. And not a very substantial one. But don’t sell the UK short. The government might be despicable, but the massive marches in London by the people have been inspiring. The power of that crowd needs to be channelled into direct action.

anarchotoothbrushist, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Maybe it won’t make an impact this election, but if people start voting for third parties regardless, the Democrats would be incentivised to do better and/or to introduce ranked-choice voting.

In any case, people need to stop waiting for elections and to start taking action now.

anarchotoothbrushist, 5 months ago

Boycott HP: bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.

anarchotoothbrushist, 5 months ago

In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you’re describing is ‘settler colonialism’. It differs from ‘exploitation colonialism’ in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.

anarchotoothbrushist, 5 months ago

Best way to incentivize the major parties to introduce ranked choice voting is to vote third party anyway ¯_(ツ)_/¯

anarchotoothbrushist, 5 months ago

Did the people downvoting this post even watch the video?

It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think it’d be accurate to say the TL;DW is basically that we shouldn’t care about ‘left unity’ if that means abandoning vulnerable people and reliquishing our deepest values. Essentially, if ‘the left’ doesn’t deliver safety for us and the people we love, then ‘the left’ can suck it.

I would have thought people on an anarchism community could appreciate that, and if they don’t, then they need to do some thinking, and maybe learn some history to see how anarchists have responded to demands of ‘unity’ and been persecuted in its name.

anarchotoothbrushist, 5 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0c6dc7d8-ba52-4b8f-8d6f-01d6464df8de.jpeg

We gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers!

bdsmovement.net

anarchotoothbrushist, 6 months ago

You probably just want to get on the email lists of local organisations (activist groups, minor political parties, union councils, etc.).

They will often cross-promote each other so you’ll be made aware of other organisations through them.